Thursday, April 6, 2017

TGP 2017 MLB Predictions: The MVP’s

Here we are finally, the big one. The Most Valuable Player
Award in Major League Baseball is considered the highest honor an individual
position player can achieve and there is only one for each league. Who wins it
for the American League and the National League? Well my American League pick
won’t shock many as it’s probably the consensus and the popular pick but that
National League pick though… that one could turn some heads. I mean it
shouldn’t but it still might anyway. Read on to see what and who I am talking
about.

American League MVP:
Mike Trout

There isn’t much explanation that needs to go into this one.
Mike Trout is arguably the best player in the American League right now
followed closely by the Boston Red Sox’s outfielder Mookie Betts, who I
honestly considered putting here… but rivalries, and is fresh off winning the
award in 2016. Trout is still young and shows no signs of breaking down or
slowing up his game so I’m simply going to keep picking him until he gives me a
reason not to. I know this isn’t the risqué pick by any means but sometimes the
safe pick is the best pick because it’s a safe pick for a reason.

National League MVP:
Nolan Arenado

Nolan Arenado has been one of the best young hitters and
third baseman in the National League for a few seasons now but somehow there
are still people out there that don’t know about him. Is that because he plays
for a rebuilding team that’s west of the Mississippi River in the Colorado
Rockies? Maybe but it certainly isn’t his production that’s doing it. Arenado,
now just 25-years old, heads into 2017 fresh off his fourth straight Gold Glove
Award at third base for Colorado as well as his second straight season in which
he led the National League in home runs. The Rockies will live and die by the
bat of Arenado next season and they will ride him all the way to an MVP Award
and quite possibly an NL West Division crown or at the very least a trip to the
postseason as a Wild Card. I didn’t predict they would but I won’t be the one
to bet against them either.